Hurricane ‘Ida’ kills at least 44 on the east coast of the US

At least 44 people have died in the United States as a result of the passage of cyclone ‘Ida’, which after degrade to a tropical storm, has wreaked havoc on the East Coast of the United States, where it has caused unprecedented rainfall and severe flooding.

At least 36 persons have died in New York and New Jersey due to the heavy rains that have fallen in recent hours in the northeastern United States, as far as the effects of cyclone ‘Ida’ that entered last week for Louisiana and that has caused unprecedented rainfall.

New York authorities have confirmed 13 fatalities in this city, including a two-year-old, while the state of New Jersey has mourned another 23 deaths, as reported by the television network NBC, including four residents of an apartment complex. On the other hand, Philadelphia authorities have confirmed that they are investigating the deaths of three people as possibly related to the storm.

The president of United States, Joe Biden, has approved the declaration of a state of emergency in New York and New Jersey, and has ordered that local officials receive federal aid. «A record rain in these states. New York registered more rain yesterday, the first day of September, than what it normally registers in the whole month, “he stressed.

To deal with the consequences of ‘Ida’, the US Department of Energy has announced that release 1.5 million barrels of crude oil from emergency reserves federal states of the country, to provide service, among others, to two-thirds of the New Orleans and Baton Rouge, which have run out of supplies after the cyclone.

Biden himself will travel to Louisiana this Friday to “inspect the damage caused by the hurricane storms,” ​​the White House press secretary said. Jen Psaki, and where they will meet with authorities to evaluate the emergency response.

The Governor of the State of New York, Kathy Hochul, has declared a state of emergency in the face of the sudden floods derived from ‘Ida’, while the mayor of the city, Bill de Blasio, also declared an emergency. In Central Park, the recorded rainfall has broken the previous record, dating from 1927, and several areas of the city have been submerged under water.

In subsequent statements, De Blasio has lamented that citizens “are going through hell” after the storm has passed. In the same way, he has considered ‘Ida’ as a “wake-up call” and has indicated that the authorities have to modify the way of dealing with “the abruptness, the brutality” of the current storms.

De Blasio has insisted that ‘Ida’ is “a dreadful storm, different from anything we’ve seen before»And thanked the rescue personnel for their work.

Transportation services have been practically paralyzed in some areas of the Northeast. Alone at the airport Newark more than 300 flights have been canceled, with mass cancellations also in the case of the aerodromes of JFK and La Guardia, In New York.

In the same way, Connecticut has declared a state of emergency with the objective of responding to the floods caused by ‘Ida’. The governor of the state, Ned Lamont, has signed a declaration to provide emergency management services “the necessary tools to help in the affected areas,” he said in a statement.

The Havoc in New York and New Jersey They have led the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, to be “deeply saddened by the lives lost and the damage caused by the devastating and unprecedented climatic events.”